I don't think any members of The Who came from Hayes but I'm pretty certain at least one member of the band The Sweet, lead singer ( Brian Connolly ) did.

http://www.thesweet.com/biography/evolution/

Despite my fading memory I am pretty certain his missus at the time worked in a hairdressers on the bridge next to Hayes station, and cut my hair. I was working on the the Westlands site then, so thats where I went for my haircut. That would have been about 1974/75. David Bowie was my idol and I was persuaded to have my hair dyed bright orange. Oh the shame of it when I think back. They were good times though !

Top of the Pops, early 70's, high heels, eyeliner, lippo, glitterdust


....and that was just the blokes !

I'm sure I was told there was a link with Dawley Cottages...one of them lived there once or something.

Cliff Bennet { and the Rebel Rousers}was a Hayes boy always enjoyed him, Ron Wood { Stones}from West Drayton, Daltry [The Who}from Sheperd Bush, Rexy could not carry a song in a bucket.

News Flash from the English coastal area

the Royal Navy intercepted
three boatloads of people off the coast of Kent today. This placed
the Navy in an awkward position, as the boats were not heading to,
but away from Kent towards France . Another surprise finding was
that they were loaded with British people who were all seniors of
pension age. Their claim was that they were trying to get to
Calais so as to be able to return to the UK as illegal immigrants
and therefore be entitled to far more benefits than they were
receiving as legitimate UK pensioners. The Navy, it is believed,
gave them food, water and fuel and assisted them on their
journey.

We are booking the next boat out;
let me know if you want to come.

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Its not always the biggest and the bestest, its them that make the least mistakes.

The worst thing about that post is that it's almost credible!

There's probably some old boy over in Germany who went over as one of the 'victors' liberating Belsen, met some young fraulein, decided to stay and settle in Hannover, had his kids there, who needless to say would have been better educated, enjoys a vastly superior environment and standard of living and thinks 'thank god I never went back !'

if my memory serves me right brian conolly of the sweet lived in clayton road and the singer of the ruts lived in dawley cottages that was known as rut row

The first bloke drank himself to death and Malcolm Owen died of a smack overdose


............................any linkage to residence in Hayes, Middx is purely coincidental

In the early 70's I used to do a part-time Mini cab job. We used to often pick up Sweet family members and they lived in one of the roads under the Hayes to Harlington flyover. Could have been Savoy Avenue but I can't remember.

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Lets be careful out there !

That sounds feasible Kremm. At the time I was working on the old Westlands site and one of the guys I worked with at the time was a member of a local band who often hung around with the Sweet. He lived in Croyde Avenue and said he was near neighbours and friends with members of the Sweet.